Hue Asian Kitchen

Pretty awkward service for overpriced and ‘ok’ food that I would prefer to get elsewhere in the city. Food: overall bland. Ok appearance. The dumplings were the best part and just “ok” when compared to dumplings across the city. Especially when considering the price. This is Vietnamese food ofc, but if I’m craving Asian cuisine, I’ll 100% be going to Thainamite or Rice and Roll. Fair prices and great food and staff. Service: staff was all standing around. Server seemed clueless to basics of human interaction. Pretty cringy experience. No plates. No silverware. We came in to relax but it felt like we had to direct her job. 😅 Atmosphere: super cool potential here. The bar is cool. Patio seems interesting but idk how it would be sitting on the busy street of KK with no views. Interested in background of the owners. Heard there’s potential for culture vultures here, but I can’t confirm. Hopefully, best of intentions here. Overall lukewarm experience that I won’t spend the money to return to again unless there are insane specials.

First time in the new location and it's brighter and more colorful, nice change. We were hopeful the menu had improved since in the old place there wasn't much that was vegan and the prices were a bit high for what you got. I wanted to order the Vietnamese Curry with Tofu since it seemed to be vegan or could be made vegan (there were no little V's or VEG icons on the menu to indicate what was what). Luckily, I mentioned I wanted it vegan when the waitress asked me which meat I wanted. She said the curry had fish sauce in it. She then went and retrieved a secondary menu at the front desk, handed it to me and said these were the only vegan dishes they had. There were about 7 dishes on it and two of them said they contained honey!!!! Um, NOT VEGAN. I laughed and asked why there were two non-vegan dishes listed in the vegan section of the special menu. The waitress hesitated and said, well, maybe some people consider honey vegan. I told her it was most definitely not vegan by any classification and they should take those off of their other menu. So I ended up ordering rice paper rolls with veggie meat and a non-alcoholic Pomegranate Sunrise. My companion ordered veggie meat beef skewers, Mì Xào (egg noodles with stir fried veggies) and a Basil Smash drink. The tiny cup of peanut sauce that came with my rolls was bland and no way could possibly cover the two rolls I received, but the rolls themselves were of good size and tasty enough. My companion said his order was just okay, but he wouldn't order it again. The drinks were very good, though. So all in all, I'm glad we checked out the new digs, but we won't be back.

Crab Rangoon was over cooked and too crispy. Pho had almost a cinnamon/holiday spice flavor to it and the broth was not hot enough to cook the raw beef served on top. The Vietnamese coffee was super diluted. Only good thing was the summer rolls even though the peanut sauce was super watery. Had higher hopes since we enjoyed their old Tosa spot previously. Just not worth it at all!